Our Commonwealth Games event was a great, fun way to end the term. All of the children took part in 14 activities linked to The Commonwealth Games. Many of our children were sponsored and a fantastic amount of money was raised! This money will go towards buying numeracy and literacy resources. Thank you to everyone for their support!

Target Practice.                                                                                         Relay, Pass the baton.

Rugby.                                                                            Badminton

Gymnastics

Our P6 and P7 show, Wind in the Willows was fantastic. All of the children worked hard to put together this musical about Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger. The children demonstrated their talents in acting, singing and dancing. Thank you to all our parents and friends who came along to the Gardyne Theatre on March 19th and 20th 2014 to support the children.

A letter went out to all children today about our Parent Council run Valentine Discos. For the discos to be successful our parent council need parents/carers to come along on the evening to help out. Please complete the tear off slip at the bottom of the letter and return to the school as soon as possible if you are able to help. Thank you.

Miss Murphy (P2b class teacher) entered Eastern Primary School into a Commonwealth Games prize draw and we were one of 24 schools in Scotland who won! The prize was a visit from the Commonwealth Game's mascot, Clyde and his team. The whole school got together to meet Clyde and to learn all about how he was chosen to be the mascot.

Our Scottish Evening was a sell out this year! Thank you to everyone who came along. The evening was kicked off with the 44th Boys Brigade Pipe Band who really raised the roof. Four Primary 7 children were comperes for the evening - Jack G, Alex, Skye and Jordan. The night was fun filled with music from the strings group accompanied by Miiss Davidson and the choir, conducted by Miss Wales. There were poetry recitals from this years winners of the Burns competition. Groups of children from Primary 5, 6 and 7 demonstrated Scottish Country dancing and then parents, carers and friends joined in. Imogen from Primary 2 and her sister Georgia showed off their skills in Highland danciing. A big thank you to Mr Donaldson for reading out the results of the Scottish Quiz and Guess the Haggis as well as providing and controlling the sound system. He also brought the evening to an end by leading the singing of "Auld Lang Syne". Mrs Knox thanked everyone who had supported the evening and the performers for making it such a successful event.

The money raised from the Parent Council Christmas Fayre has been used to buy four interactive one hundred squares. These  provide a one hundred square visual map to support children when they are learning about place value, multiplication, decimals and many other numerical concepts.

Tickets will be going on sale next week for our Scottish Evening on Friday 31st January.

All of our classes have had great fun at their Christmas Parties, playing party games and having fun with their class and class teacher.More photos of parties will follow....

 P5 Party                                                                                                     P4 Party

P4 Party                                                                       P5 Party

After the great news that our P3 Carol Singers had won the Wave 102 competition, they were invited along to sing in The Overgate Centre and receive their prizes.  The children sang beautifully.  P3 will also be provided with a disco by Wave 102 in the New Year.

We are delighted that there has been another addition to our playground. The sail was completed today offering shade to children for the sunshine (when we have it) and some shelter from heavy rain. Benches will be installed at the end of this term under the sail so that the area can be used as an outdoor learning area or as a seated area at playtime and lunchtime.